Listening to Iced Earth’s mediocre new album and reading Marvel’s mediocre summer event comic from last year. I guess it’s a day for toothless apocalypses.
Leigh Walton talks comics and maybe other arts.
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Header by me. Contains an interpolation of the final panel from All-Star Superman #1 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. Speaking of which.
Picture Poetry 
Too bad that World War Hulk is no good, Planet Hulk was a really fun superhero piece.
Agreed, Remi. The stakes were lower and the drama was genuine.
Have you read Annihilation yet? It’s those guys who rebooted the Legion a few years back (Legion Lost, etc.) rebooting all that Marvel space stuff you used to dig back in the day (Nova, Guardians of the Galaxy, Warlock & the Infinity Watch, etc.).